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Monika (Offline)
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06-15-2007, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by yamashita View Post
yeah thanks for reply..

now i know there are some expensive private schools and also schools for free. ( normal ones like u and me know)
i ve read that many rich parents send their childs to expensive schools because they want THE BEST education for their childs..

i ve also read that children learn really, really hard in japan. most of them should have no time to play!
there should be only time for going to school, going to coaching school,
do homework for generell school, do homework for coaching school.
thats a 17 hours day for child only spending time for school stuff
thats cause they have a very good knowledge in school things (look at pisa studies)
but creativity
is rare, cause creativity they can only get by using phantasy ( playing games with friends etc.)

for me ( a creative person) bad news.
but it depends on me how i train my childs....
I don't know if Japanese children are really less creative than those in European or American school systems. But I know that the teen suicide rate is very high in Japan and in countries with similarly strict school systems like Hong Kong and Korea (probably China, too, but they don't publish the numbers). Also I read a Japanese study about psychological problems of Japanese school children that lead them not to be able to attend school. There is a specific Japanese word for this, but I have forgotten it. A significant percentage of "school skippers" isn't really skipping in the literal sense, but really can't get themselves to go to school. In Japanese cities so-called "play schools" are opening for such children. They often have less than a dozen students and they really mostly talk and play with each other. If they want to, they also study a little. Some tried to have regular classes, but then the students stayed away, again. After being there for a while, most of them can go to normal schools again, eventually.

There are schools with less pressure, but these are also less good and in Japan it's very important to have been at a good school to get a good job.

Some parents send their children to international, e.g. US American schools in Japan, not so much for the foreign language, but for having less pressure.
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